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Champion Your Students!

From ‘Completing a Job Application’ to ‘Carpentry’, Education Associates now offers educators the ability to award Employability Credentials for over 100 Project Discovery kits and Achieve Life Skills titles.

From classroom preparation to job success and independent living, Employability Credentials empower students and communicate crucial skill sets to friends, family and prospective employers.

What are Employability Credentials from Education Associates?

Employability Credentials are an exciting new enhancement to the nationally-recognized job preparation and life skills curriculum from Education Associates.

An Employability Credential allows students to earn a Digital Badge! A Digital Badge is an electronic award recognizing specific student performance. The receipt of a Digital Badge signifies that the student has completed specific Project Discovery career skills and/ or Achieve Life Skills curriculum and demonstrated the necessary competencies to show concept proficiency.

Each Employability Credential represents a Project Discovery hands-on kit or an Achieve Life Skills title offered by Education Associates. We currently offer Employability Credentials for all Project Discovery Kits with the exception of Career Awareness. We also offer Employability Credentials for two distinct reading levels of every Achieve Life Skills kit in our catalog.

Your students have the opportunity to earn 186 unique Employability Credentials on everything from Child Care to Customer Service!

Pricing Details

$120 // Per Curriculum Title

Includes ability to request credentials for an entire fiscal year
Priced by title, not by recipient
Available for all EA curriculum except Career Awareness
May be used by any instructor within the same building without additional charge
May be applied to both new purchases and existing curriculum*
License extends one full year from date of purchase order.
Once awarded, Digital Badge Credentials never expire!

*applies to all curriculum purchased after July 1, 2017

$350 // One-Time Account Activation

One-time charge covers:

Ongoing service and support for an entire building
Welcome Packet:

– Teacher Instructions with Demo Log-In
– Credential Request Forms
– Student Quick-Start Guide
– Classroom Poster

Credential Award Summaries sent to instructors
Ongoing technical support for administrators, instructors and recipients

Why Offer Employability Credentials?

Targeted Job & Life Preparation

Documentation of Competencies

Building Blocks for Resumes

Backed by Nationally-Recognized Curriculum

Students Harnessing Control of Their Own Futures!

Access to nationally-recognized curriculum
Catalog of students’ performance and skill mastery
Classroom summary reporting from Education Associates
Uniform method for sharing student accomplishments with other educators, parents and potential student employers

Snapshot of potential employee’s applicable skills
Access to detailed qualifications & badge criteria
Electronic access to detailed credentials at any time
Credentialing using nationally-recognized curriculum

All of their qualifications summarized in one location
Removal of communication barriers to employment
Instruction from a nationally-recognized provider of career exploration and life skills
Huge boost in confidence!

Watch our edWebinar!

“Digital Badge Credentials: Preparing Students with Special Needs for Employment”

To watch the recorded webinar, click the button below!

Please email us at digitalbadgecredentials@educationassociates.com if you want to know more about Digital Badge Credentials. We look forward to sharing more about this innovative, new program with you!

Evidence-Based Teaching Strategies Yield Positive Outcomes

Our colleague Dr. Amy Spriggs is an Associate Professor in the Department of Early Childhood, Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling at the University of Kentucky. Her research study explores Strategies for Effective Career and Life Education for Individuals with Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities.

The research from Dr. Spriggs illuminates the importance of career and life education and the need to bridge a gap between skills acquisition and fulfilling employment for students with disabilities. As she explains as a keynote presenter in our edWebinar, Digital Badge Credentials can help verify and communicate job and life skills for all students, including those with different needs.

Proud Partner

The National Occupational Competency Testing Institute (NOCTI) is a non-profit organization that provides tools to help educators validate student skills and prepare them for success in the workforce. In partnering with NOCTI, Education Associates has combined our nationally validated curriculum with a platform that allows students to easily and objectively showcase their accomplishments and mastered skills.

Schedule a Webinar

Click below to schedule an individualized webinar to discuss Employability Credentials, Project Discovery or any of Education Associates’ other job and life skills solutions!

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